Journey to Ithaca

May 9, 2025 12:37 AM

Author:Anita Desai

Journey to Ithaca

Like so many other young Westerners in the 1960s and 1970s, Matteo leaves home to search for spiritual enlightenment in the ashrams of India. He believes he finds it at the feet of 'the Mother', but down-to-earth Sophie, who accompanies him, does not find her inspiring so much as mysterious, and decides to trace the Mother's own story - from her travels with an Indian dance troupe in Paris, Venice and New York, to her search for divine love in India.

Reviews

A beautiful book of epic scope... Anita Desai has surpassed her own previous high standards

—— Literary Review

Full of revelations and pleasures

—— Independent on Sunday

She writes an extraordinarily delicate, lucid English... She is a writer's writer in that anyone who has ever set pen to paper must ask himself just what it is about the writing that makes it so memorable

—— Victoria Glendinning , Times Literary Supplement

Superbly powerful... A rich, evocative book

—— Spectator

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—— Terry Eagleton , Stand

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—— Colb Toibin , Sunday Independent

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—— Independent

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